Re: [RFC PATCH V2 4/4] powerpc/mm/iommu: Allow migration of cma allocated pages during mm_iommu_get

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 06-09-18 11:13:42, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Current code doesn't do page migration if the page allocated is a compound page.
> With HugeTLB migration support, we can end up allocating hugetlb pages from
> CMA region. Also THP pages can be allocated from CMA region. This patch updates
> the code to handle compound pages correctly.
> 
> This use the new helper get_user_pages_cma_migrate. It does one get_user_pages
> with right count, instead of doing one get_user_pages per page. That avoids
> reading page table multiple times.
> 
> The patch also convert the hpas member of mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t to a union.
> We use the same storage location to store pointers to struct page. We cannot
> update alll the code path use struct page *, because we access hpas in real mode
> and we can't do that struct page * to pfn conversion in real mode.

I am not fmailiar with this code so bear with me. I am completely
missing the purpose of this patch. The changelog doesn't really explain
that AFAICS. I can only guess that you do not want to establish long
pins on CMA pages, right? So whenever you are about to pin a page that
is in CMA you migrate it away to a different !__GFP_MOVABLE page, right?
If that is the case then how do you handle pins which are already in
zone_movable? I do not see any specific check for those.

Btw. why is this a proper thing to do? Problems with longterm pins are
not only for CMA/ZONE_MOVABLE pages. Pinned pages are not reclaimable as
well so there is a risk of OOMs if there are too many of them. We have
discussed approaches that would allow to force pin invalidation/revocation
at LSF/MM. Isn't that a more appropriate solution to the problem you are
seeing?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs